One of the newest decentralized exchanges, Perpetual Protocol, has seen its volumes surge in the first month, reaching $500 million.
The new DeFi protocol offers decentralized perpetual contracts using Layer 2 Ethereum scaling solutions. In its first monthly recap report, the project announced that it has made it into the top ten decentralized exchange list, according to Dune Analytics.
📣 1 Month Recap!
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👉 https://t.co/F66XTukZJr– Highlights –
📈Daily volume peaked @ 80m on https://t.co/hGSPyStUz5
😍Tons of media mentions
🤯Gas for over 179k tx cost $183 on @xdaichainA⭐️HUGE⭐️thanks to our community for all the support and feedback!!! 🙏
— Perpetual Protocol (@perpprotocol) January 15, 2021
With a seven day volume of almost $300,000, Perpetual Protocol now ranks above other DeFi heavyweights, including dYdX, Synthetix, and Kyber. Trading volume peaked at over $80 million in USDC on January 11, it added.
All trading fees generated on the DEX are currently funneled into an insurance fund designed to secure the protocol. The announcement reported that there is currently over $600k in the fund. Perpetual plans to give a portion of the fees to stakers in its native PERP token once the liquidity pools launch.
Powered by xDai
The protocol runs on the Layer 2 xDai Chain, which claims to operate a hundred times cheaper than the Ethereum network. xDai, which adopted Chainlink oracles in November, is secured by a proof-of-stake consensus mechanism using its own STAKE tokens.
The protocol congratulated Perpetual Protocol, pointing out that it spent just $183 in gas to execute over 179K transactions;
“Congratulations to the @perpprotocol, just over one month old and already making some serious moves with trading volume surpasing 500M!”
The month-old DEX offers leverage of up to 20x and the ability to short assets through perpetual contracts (which have no expiry date unlike futures). It has been built on a Uniswap type “virtual” automated market maker (VAMM), which is backed by fully collateralized vaults and a built-in staking pool that provides a backstop for each virtual market.
It added that no assets were under-collateralized during its first month of operation;
“We didn’t have any under-collateralized assets liquidated during this period thanks to xDai’s fast block times.”
Altcoin Buzz explained how VAMMs such as Perpetual Protocol work in a September 2020 video from our YouTube channel.
PERP Token Price Update
Despite the bullish trading figures, the DeFi protocol’s native PERP token has taken a hit today, sliding 12.7% to $4.32, according to Coingecko.
This can largely be ignored, though, as PERP is up 135% over the past seven days and a whopping 340% over the past thirty.
xDai’s STAKE token is in a similar situation with a 15% drop on the day to $16.63 but impressive weekly and monthly gains.
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